Candid Marilyn Monroe photos to be auctioned in Poland

Rare Marilyn Monroe photographs immortalising the American blonde bombshell will be auctioned November 8 in Warsaw, an auction house in the Polish capital announced Wednesday.

Poland's state treasury obtained the candid shots of Monroe -- taken by a friend, Milton Green -- in a collection of nearly 4,000 photographs it received as part of a 1995 foreign debt settlement.

Monroe is snapped dressed in jeans fixing her lipstick and hair, eating a meal and coyly chatting on the phone in several photos.

The "Some Like It Hot" actress died on August 5, 1962 from a barbiturate overdose at her Los Angeles home.

The Dom Aukcyjny Desa Unicum auction house is placing a total of 240 photographs on offer in the November bidding, which will have a fixed minimum of 72 euros ($93) per photo.

A woman walks past photos of Marylin Monroe by late celebrity photographer Milton H. Greene at an exhibition in Warsaw in August 2012. The collection of photographs of Marilyn Monroe was obtained by the Polish state as part of a foreign debt settlement and will be auctioned off later in November.